“I just can’t bring myself to feel so lucky when there is so much suffering. Sure, ability to understand the universe is great, but what good is it when your life is spent in desperate isolation, or extreme pain, or eternal conflict? I say we keep what Richard Dawkins has said in mind, and also combat unnecessary suffering. That is what I am going to do. I cannot live with myself if I do not live both ways.”

— pseudonymous comment response to Richard Dawkins’ “Growing Up in the Universe”